NASA: Hole in the Ozone Smallest Since Discovery in 1982.
“It’s a rare event that we’re still trying to understand,” Susan Strahan, an atmospheric scientist with the Universities Space Research Association, said in a statement. “If the warming hadn’t happened, we’d likely be looking at a much more typical ozone hole.”
But researchers added that these scientific events are not linked to climate change. more
Perhaps the ozone is just another one of natures mystics that we shouldn’t phuck with….like climate change or transgenderism.
My favorite George Carlin bit:
https://youtu.be/7W33HRc1A6c
Well at least it WAS big enough to help DUPONT phase out all their Chlorine based refrigerants Like R-12, R-22, R-502 and a few other obscure blends so they could market a whole new line of shit to sell the public that isn’t as efficient and the oil degrades and wipes out compressors at an early age. That’s why you’ll find really old refrigerators (20-30 years old) in your parent’s garage or basement that are still running and the “NEW” fancy shit only lasts maybe 5-8 years tops.
There’s an obama joke in there somewhere.
“We don’t know what it is, or how it works, but we must keep pushing the agenda my fellow brownshirt NASA robots!
I would have sexual relations with that woman
I was hoping to get a peek at my wife’s “O” zone hole today but it didn’t work out.
True story.
@Doc: Only in the USA and other western countries. You can go to Mexico, for instance, and get all the R-12, R-22, etc. you want.
So the left’s attempt to ruin our economy in the 80s by forcing us to stop using refrigerants failed, so now they are trying to blame global warming on the depletion of the ozone layer? With the same goal.
Total BS.
@ TonyR just don’t get caught bringing that stuff back into the states! I don’t do that shit anymore anyway. I had one of the last R-500 stockpiles left in Calif. until I gave it away in 2006.
Oh noes! How is the heat going to escape if the ozone hole closes up??
O2 + e = O1 + O1;
O1 + O2 + e = O3.
NASA even admitted prevalent O3 due to warmer temps (more “e” therefore more O3)
so … an atmospheric phenomena, that we just discovered 39 years ago (which is a blink of a gnat’s eye in geological time), is supposed to be a harbinger of … what, exactly? …
my guess is speculation (better known as ‘bullshit’) in search of taxpayer money
@Doc
Still have my 28 yr old R-12 refrigerator chugging along!
Sounds like you know something about the business!
When my parents moved out of their Toledo home in 2013, the used refrigerator they bought in 1950 was still keeping things cold.
So what size is the hole supposed to be? Maybe we should worry that it’s shrinking? Who the fuck knows for sure.
Earth’s been around for billions of years; known about the ozone layer since ’82, and in 2019 they think they know everything about it.
“Everything we thought before was wrong”.
Sure have heard that before.
Psst! IT’S. THE. SUN.
Not CFCs or evil sky fairies or rocket unicorns. Variations in the Earth’s magnetic field coinciding with increasing and decreasing radiation output from that giant fusion reactor at the center of the solar system cause fluctuations in atmospheric composition.
You’re welcome. Now go back to school. And pay attention this time.